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Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: RedRyder on July 08, 2021, 03:13:30 pm

Good on you, Dennis!
and...
Good on you, Jim!

Gil

Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: Jim on July 06, 2021, 06:11:25 pm

Thanks all, I won't see him till sometime between Boxing Day and New Years Eve when he'll be down visiting for the Christmas holidays.

Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: Dampfopa on July 06, 2021, 11:44:12 am

Quote from: txlabman on July 06, 2021, 06:32:51 am

A great team effort Jim and Dennis!

Jim: have you presented the restored windmill to your friend yet?  Just curious about his reaction.  I am sure that he was thrilled.

I'm interested in that, too.

Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: txlabman on July 06, 2021, 06:32:51 am

A great team effort Jim and Dennis!

Jim: have you presented the restored windmill to your friend yet?  Just curious about his reaction.  I am sure that he was thrilled.

Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: Scorpion2nz on July 01, 2021, 01:18:57 am

I know nothing

Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: Jim on June 30, 2021, 07:49:15 pm

Thanks all.

Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: Dampfopa on June 30, 2021, 12:17:12 pm

Hello Jim,
I am sure your friend appreciates the efforts you have made to restore the steam windmill.A great job by Dennis. Congratulations!
There are a lot of memories in these toys from childhood. Many a little story that happened in connection with the little steam windmill is remembered and retold.

I hope you are aware of what a great deed you are committing by returning the restored windmill.

Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: Nick on June 29, 2021, 09:35:25 pm

That is great Jim & Dennis!! But we need a steam up video before it goes back home  ;)

Title: Re: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: St Paul Steam on June 29, 2021, 09:26:20 pm

Good on Dennis for making the parts to finish a boyhood toy for a childhood friend of Jim's, & then Jim is going to gift it back to him complete and running , what a great story 😊👍

Title: Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)
Post by: Jim on June 29, 2021, 09:10:43 pm

Look what arrived from New Zealand yesterday :)

Asked Dennis if he ever had the time could he make me the missing parts for the 1950s Australian made Renown toy steam windmill that a friend of mine played with as a young boy and he gave it to me a few years ago. I want to put it together now and gift it back to him complete, he will be so surprised! It was bought for him one Christmas and his elder brothers ended up stripping it down and he never saw those parts again.

Thanks Dennis.....that was a might job mate 👍

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